18 Bible Verses about Loving Your Parents
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"You must honor your father and mother" -- this is the first commandment, with a promise to make it good
For God said, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Whoever curses his father or mother must certainly be put to death.'
You must practice honoring your father and mother. And you must love your neighbor as you do yourself."
Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,
Children, practice obedience to your parents in everything, for this is acceptable in Christians.
Children, obey your parents, for this is right.
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
It is now the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I will never ask you for financial support, for it is not your money but you yourselves that I want; for children are not by duty bound to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.
Fathers, stop exasperating your children, so as to keep them from losing heart.
See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.
Now love means this, that we keep on living in accordance with His commands. The command is this, that we continue to live in love.
You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.
You husbands must continue to love your wives and stop being harsh with them.
Show honor to everyone. Practice love for the brotherhood; practice reverence to God and honor to the Emperor.
For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?
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